Word: badness
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...verse is less distinguished; some of it, in fact, is bad. The most finished poem of the seven is Mr. Mitchell's sonnet; the most effective. Mr. Dos Passos' "Incarnation," an experiment in a form which allows itself something of the flexibility of "vers libre" yet retains rhyme and metre. Mr. Allinson's "Renaissance," a sonnet replete with mythological allusions of surprisingly cosmopolitan range, must have been written of some other April than the month we have just survived...
...already overthrown the Spanish government when the United States entered the islands. One can buy land but one cannot buy a people. The United States has no moral right to stay in the islands and rule a people against its will. The acquisition of the archipelago was a "bad bargain." We had a duty, however, to perform. That duty is now performed, and it is time for us to leave the Philippines for Filipinos...
...second and third Freshman crews yesterday raced the Noble's crew, and in this contest the third Freshman boat succeeded in beating the Noble's eight by a quarter of a length. The second Freshmen were rowing very roughly and came in a bad third. Today the first Sophomore crew will meet the Union Boat Club over a mile course...
Next Friday, April 28, is to be Bad Friday, for the Seniors are then to go on their Junket to the Baseball Cage, starting their procession from the Yard at 7.15. Each Senior will bring several bags of gold, not following the example of miserable miserliness set by Silas Marner...
...America," he said, "is a land where individualism takes precedence. While the benefits of this in regard to other questions may be good or bad, there can be no doubt as to its effect on preparedness. We need collective thinking and collective action. So long as we are individual, we will be hopelessly unprepared...